Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 7

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• This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Wonderful Friends, World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Soup, Salt

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

  Cornelia Funke

  Towns, Looks, Countryside

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• I will try to write books until I drop dead.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

  Cornelia Funke

  Young, Composer

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• No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

  Cornelia Funke

  Thyme, Bishops, Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Dragons, Riders

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• Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Heartless, Promise

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.703, Scholastic Inc.

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• What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Ifs

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.399, Scholastic Inc.

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• The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

  Cornelia Funke

  Wall, Night, Light

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

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• Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!

  Cornelia Funke

  Crush, Writing, Hands

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• I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Pages, Inkheart

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• Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

  Cornelia Funke

  Running, Hair, Venice

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• Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word?

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  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

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• So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.

  Cornelia Funke

  Fun, Fear, Reading

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.117, Chicken House

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• We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

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  Fun, Book, Fall

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

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  Made

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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• And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.

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  Stupid, Taken, Heart

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• I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.660, Scholastic Inc.

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• I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

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  Brother, Children, Book

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• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

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  Book, Odd, Inkdeath

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.51, Chicken House

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• Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

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  Happiness, Heart, Being In Love

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• She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Eye, Thanks

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• Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

  Cornelia Funke

  Butterfly, Doe, Caterpillars

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